Life of Pi

"The ship sank. It just sank."

"Without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive to tell you my story."

"Miracles are the laws of nature that we don't yet understand."

"I have learned things in the school of suffering that I could not have learned otherwise."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."

"Religion is like imagination. It makes us who we are."

"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an bounded world."

"I have nothing to say of my childhood except that it was unhappy."

"I have been blessed beyond belief."

"God is universal. Everyone has their own interpretation."

"Stories are the things that stick. Explanations are clear but forgettable."

"My official explanation of my experience remains the same as I've always said."

"I spent my boyhood swimming, playing with animals, and dreaming of wild things."

"What is the purpose of our life? To be loved by cats, surely."

"I was reduced to an animal state."

"I exist; that is the truth."

"My suffering taught me the fragility of life."

"It is remarkable how you can be hungry and thirsty and exhausted and still be thinking clearly."

"I learned that faith is a hard-won thing. It cannot be rushed into."

"To love someone is to receive a glimpse of heaven."

"Love is hard to explain."

"I am a result of my circumstances."

"But the more I think about it, the more I realize that a story is the only way to express the truth."

"I have liked things about religion, the solace it provides."

"I will not eat you today."

"The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar."

"I have other stats for you. I have survived 227 days at sea."

"My name is Piscine Molitor Patel. But I am known as Pi."

"You can pray while driving a car very fast and turn a kiln on."